generate some new threads, you lazy fucks!
$Zero
chop chop...
write some interesting stand-alone essays.
stop jerking off in your blogs.
take a little break from putting food on your table and paying the
mortgage with your prose and cons and whatnot.
stop playing ping pong with Ray.
excerise some free-form creativity!
(here, in the big bad world of usenet).
let's go.
i expect to see at least one new stand-alone essay or poll from each
and every regular mw poster within the next 24 hours or you're fucking
fired.
now get to it.
-$Zero...
follow the bouncing google sig links (Part I)
http://groups.google.com/group/misc.writing/msg/0fd2ff32e9686809
john.ku...@sympatico.ca
I like wool.
Alan Hope
>generate some new threads, you lazy fucks!
>
>chop chop...
>
>write some interesting stand-alone essays.
>
>stop jerking off in your blogs.
I remember when you could get paid big bucks to do that sort of thing.
As much as $100 a year, in some cases.
--
AH
http://grapes2dot0.blogspot.com
$Zero
that must be one of those mw inside jokes that i seemed to have
somehow missed out on over the past ten years.
mercy translation anyone?
-$Zero...
generate some new threads, you lazy fucks!
http://groups.google.com/group/misc.writing/msg/e7a2a1c85bbfeb9d
$Zero
> $Zero goes:
>
> >generate some new threads, you lazy fucks!
>
> >chop chop...
>
> >write some interesting stand-alone essays.
>
> >stop jerking off in your blogs.
>
> I remember when you could get paid big bucks to do that sort of thing.
>
> As much as $100 a year, in some cases.
$100 a week.
be patient.
Geno's thinking about investing.
-$Zero...
generate some new threads, you lazy fucks!
http://groups.google.com/group/misc.writing/msg/e7a2a1c85bbfeb9d
Burr
"Koolc...@smurfsareus.xxx"
>
> I like wool.
I don't like making "Wool", you have to walk to far to kiss them!
Burr
Pies de Arcilla
$Zero wrote:
> On Dec 5, 6:44�pm, Alan Hope <usenet.ident...@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> > $Zero goes:
> >
> > >generate some new threads, you lazy fucks!
> >
> > >chop chop...
> >
> > >write some interesting stand-alone essays.
> >
> > >stop jerking off in your blogs.
> >
> > I remember when you could get paid big bucks to do that sort of thing.
> >
> > As much as $100 a year, in some cases.
>
> $100 a week.
>
> be patient.
>
> Geno's thinking about investing.
Anyone remember suck.com, back in the 90's? Was that a blog?
$Zero
> $Zero wrote:
> > On Dec 5, 6:44�pm, Alan Hope <usenet.ident...@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> > > $Zero goes:
>
> > > >generate some new threads, you lazy fucks!
>
> > > >chop chop...
>
> > > >write some interesting stand-alone essays.
>
> > > >stop jerking off in your blogs.
>
> > > I remember when you could get paid big bucks to do that sort of thing.
>
> > > As much as $100 a year, in some cases.
>
> > $100 a week.
starting salary.
> > be patient.
>
> > Geno's thinking about investing.
>
> Anyone remember suck.com, back in the 90's? Was that a blog?
wow.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Suck.com
check out the where-are-they-now section.
-$Zero...
cha' ching!
cha' ching!
cha' ching!
http://groups.google.com/group/misc.writing/msg/76439cf26bf114d0
Bill
> generate some new threads, you lazy fucks!
>
> chop chop...
>
> write some interesting stand-alone essays.
I doubt if very many people take your challenge,
Zero. After all, it is far easier for people to
posture like writers, and, when the chips are
down, to suddenly pretend that misc.writing
(or Usenet itself) is not a "proper venue"
for writers. Well, I SAY, that if it is not
a proper venue for writers then these lazy
louts should either stop making writerly
noises or get out of Usenet. Of course,
some of them have been holding their cards
so close to their vest that the cards have
fused to the vests. Sad.
The stand alone is the sin qua non of
newsgroup writing, so I hope you can
inspire a few people to hazard one or
two.
>
> stop jerking off in your blogs.
Their blogs are almost totally obscure.
None of these poseurs have built up any
readership outside their fellow writers
manque in this group. Why? Because
they are merely echoing others. No
originality.
[Memo from the upstairs office.]
Bill
> $Zero goes:
>
> >generate some new threads, you lazy fucks!
>
> >chop chop...
>
> >write some interesting stand-alone essays.
>
> >stop jerking off in your blogs.
>
> I remember when you could get paid big bucks to do that sort of thing.
>
> As much as $100 a year, in some cases.
Good grief! What ridiculous fool was it who overpaid
you $97 that year?
>
> --
> AHhttp://grapes2dot0.blogspot.com
boots
>On Dec 5, 6:30?pm, "Koolchi...@smurfsareus.xxx"
><john.kulczy...@sympatico.ca> wrote:
>> $Zero wrote:
>>
>> > generate some new threads, you lazy fucks!
>>
>> > chop chop...
>>
>> > write some interesting stand-alone essays.
>>
>> > stop jerking off in your blogs.
>>
>> > take a little break from putting food on your table and paying the
>> > mortgage with your prose and cons and whatnot.
>>
>> > stop playing ping pong with Ray.
>>
>> > excerise some free-form creativity!
>>
>> > (here, in the big bad world of usenet).
>>
>> > let's go.
>>
>> > i expect to see at least one new stand-alone essay or poll from each
>> > and every regular mw poster within the next 24 hours or you're fucking
>> > fired.
>>
>> > now get to it.
>>
>> > -$Zero...
>>
>> > ? follow the bouncing google sig links (Part I)
>> > ?http://groups.google.com/group/misc.writing/msg/0fd2ff32e9686809
>>
>> I like wool.
>
>that must be one of those mw inside jokes that i seemed to have
>somehow missed out on over the past ten years.
>
>mercy translation anyone?
His girlfriend's favorite phrase is "baaaaaaa", do ewe geddit?
--
The sane answer, to madness, is insanity.
boots
$Zero
> "$Zero" <zeroi...@gmail.com> wrote:
> >On Dec 5, 6:30?pm, "Koolchi...@smurfsareus.xxx"
> ><john.kulczy...@sympatico.ca> wrote:
> >> $Zero wrote:
>
> >> > generate some new threads, you lazy fucks!
>
> >> > chop chop...
>
> >> > write some interesting stand-alone essays.
>
> >> > stop jerking off in your blogs.
>
> >> > take a little break from putting food on your table and paying the
> >> > mortgage with your prose and cons and whatnot.
>
> >> > stop playing ping pong with Ray.
>
> >> > excerise some free-form creativity!
>
> >> > (here, in the big bad world of usenet).
>
> >> > let's go.
>
> >> > i expect to see at least one new stand-alone essay or poll from each
> >> > and every regular mw poster within the next 24 hours or you're fucking
> >> > fired.
>
> >> > now get to it.
>
> >> > -$Zero...
>
>
> >> I like wool.
>
> >that must be one of those mw inside jokes that i seemed to have
> >somehow missed out on over the past ten years.
>
> >mercy translation anyone?
>
> His girlfriend's favorite phrase is "baaaaaaa", do ewe geddit?
not yet.
IOW: i don't see how it relates to what preceeded it.
what does fucking a sheep have to do with my authoritative commands
for new and interesting material?
...
perhaps it's just some sort of lame wooly pun on the word "threads"?
but i still don't see how that could relate significantly either.
unless maybe Koolchicki's accidently slipped back into the attempt-to-
mimic-Ray's-sense-of-humor-mode?
it's probably dangerous to delve into such a reversion, kinda like
submerging yourself into the dark void of a sensory deprivation tank,
or force-crossing your eyes and having them stay that way, so maybe.
-$Zero...
who, for no practical reason, types only with his pinky fingers.
http://groups.google.com/group/misc.writing/msg/ce39b0c0696d1aa8
$Zero
heh.
anyway, i should take this opportunity to note well that, apropos to
karma, the parameters i laid out for Geno's stock offer apply only to
Geno.
john.ku...@sympatico.ca
Well I was going to use silk, but most folks don't know that silk is
actually warmer than wool when uesd for winter undies, so it would
have been lost.
>
> but i still don't see how that could relate significantly either.
>
> unless maybe Koolchicki's accidently slipped back into the attempt-to-
> mimic-Ray's-sense-of-humor-mode?
Ouch! Oh! Ouch, ouch.
>
> it's probably dangerous to delve into such a reversion, kinda like
> submerging yourself into the dark void of a sensory deprivation tank,
> or force-crossing your eyes and having them stay that way, so maybe.
Lumpy thinking, you need to be spurtled.
>
>
> -$Zero...
Alan Hope
>Lumpy thinking, you need to be spurtled.
Careful, that's a Scots word, therefore arcane.
--
AH
http://grapes2dot0.blogspot.com
Ray Haddad
and Alan Hope <usenet....@gmail.com> instead replied:
>Koolc...@smurfsareus.xxx goes:
>
>>Lumpy thinking, you need to be spurtled.
>
>Careful, that's a Scots word, therefore arcane.
Therefore all Scots are arcane.
--
Ray
sammy
I still think Josh's essay, The Follies of Being a Zero was the best,
funniest, and most well-written piece of writing on this group as long
as I have been here.
May I post it, Josh?
Thank you.
~~~~
The Follies of Being a Zero
Tertullian, in his Third Epistle to the Canapes, said, "In
pace, ut sapiens, aptarit idonea bello," which I translate thus: "The
butt-dumb cop who thinks he understands things better than folks who
don't share his intellectual imitations is like the worm who tries to
fly and succeeds only in getting eaten by a bird."
Now we are met on a great battle-field to fix Zero's problems
in the hope that he'll stop whining and give us some peace.
And who is this Zero?
Zero does not share the butt-dumb cop's intellectual
limitations: he is creative and he is smart. But Zero and that
butt-dumb cop do share something else in common. Each is in love with
notion of being something that they aren't. And because they aren't
what they would like to be, they've gotten in the habit of fooling
themselves that they are what they aren't. And because they've gotten
so good at fooling themselves into thinking that they are what they
aren't, the fantasy has become a narcotic.
The butt-dumb cop, if he genuinely wanted to alleviate the
dull ache of his ignorance, would seek out the learning of others so
that he had a foundation upon which to erect his own thoughts, and a
model for how to do so.
He would cultivate curiosity and question incessantly his own
beliefs, and the beliefs of others.
He would recognize that reality cares nothing for bluster and
threats, that the more forcefully the thinker strikes it with his
baton, the more thoroughly he hurts his own shin.
Now if the butt-dumb cop did these things, he would find
himself less butt-dumb.
Unfortunately, for the butt-dumb cop, fantasy has become more
rewarding than reality. In the butt-dumb cop's imagination (a
terribly
cramped space, to be sure, occupied mostly with images of bloodied
prisoners and goose-stepping troops showing the Nazi salute), he can
outwit any man, no matter how smart and educated.
Indeed, for the butt-dumb cop, /the development of the
intellect is to be avoided at all costs./ Because were he to try to
develop his intellect, he would have to confront reality, and reality
is seldom as pleasurable as fantasy.
So too Zero.
Zero, of course, is not butt dumb. He is, in fact, fairly
clever and creative.
But because Zero has fallen in love with the idea that he's a
creative genius, he is no longer concerned with developing and
testing
his actual gifts.
What's worse, the fantasy of genius has become so rewarding,
so seductive, that success has become for Zero something that /must
be
avoided at all costs,/ lest reality not equal his hopes.
Like the butt-dumb cop, he's become trapped in the narcotic
of
fantasy.
Like the butt-dumb cop, the thing he fears most is success.
~~~~
Pure poetry!
Ultraviolet
<>
> Pure poetry!
Petulant blechery.
john.ku...@sympatico.ca
Men in kilts. Was there any doubt?
RJM
"Ray Haddad" <rha...@iexpress.net.au> wrote in message
news:nsvgl39srjmpkttm1...@4ax.com...
Gak. That fucking Hope insists on bantering with the cunt.
Makes me sick.
Goodnight.
Alan Hope
>Two roads diverged in a yellow froup when sammy wrote:
><>
>> Pure poetry!
>Petulant blechery.
Where are the Oh snoes of yesteryear innit.
--
AH
http://grapes2dot0.blogspot.com
$Zero
> On Dec 5, 1:56 pm, "$Zero" <zeroi...@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> > generate some new threads, you lazy fucks!
>
> > chop chop...
>
> > write some interesting stand-alone essays.
>
> > stop jerking off in your blogs.
>
> > take a little break from putting food on your table and paying the
> > mortgage with your prose and cons and whatnot.
>
> > stop playing ping pong with Ray.
>
> > excerise some free-form creativity!
>
> > (here, in the big bad world of usenet).
>
> > let's go.
>
> > i expect to see at least one new stand-alone essay or poll from each
> > and every regular mw poster within the next 24 hours or you're fucking
> > fired.
>
> > now get to it.
>
> > -$Zero...
>
> > follow the bouncing google sig links (Part I)
> > http://groups.google.com/group/misc.writing/msg/0fd2ff32e9686809
>
> I still think Josh's essay, The Follies of Being a Zero was the best,
> funniest, and most well-written piece of writing on this group as long
> as I have been here.
you also probably think that the bible is the complete and inerrant
word of God, so, um...
> May I post it, Josh?
Josh's "insights" on the human condition can be found in any junkmail
catalog in the trash bin.
sometimes a diode is just a diode.
(other times, it's a bit of wire and silicone and whatnot).
[...snip Josh's format-fucked self-justifying rationalizations...]
feverishly composed by Josh with nothing other than good intentions,
no doubt.
-$Zero...
threading thru the history of clothing
http://groups.google.com/group/misc.writing/msg/b47c8110c1c59759
$Zero
<john.kulczy...@sympatico.ca> wrote:
> $Zero wrote:
> > On Dec 6, 6:18�am, boots <n...@no.no> wrote:
> > > "$Zero" <zeroi...@gmail.com> wrote:
> > > >On Dec 5, 6:30?pm, "Koolchi...@smurfsareus.xxx"
> > > ><john.kulczy...@sympatico.ca> wrote:
> > > >> $Zero wrote:
>
> > > >> > generate some new threads, you lazy fucks!
>
> > > >> > chop chop...
>
> > > >> > write some interesting stand-alone essays.
>
> > > >> > stop jerking off in your blogs.
>
> > > >> > take a little break from putting food on your table and paying the
> > > >> > mortgage with your prose and cons and whatnot.
>
> > > >> > stop playing ping pong with Ray.
>
>
> > > >> > (here, in the big bad world of usenet).
>
> > > >> > let's go.
>
> > > >> > i expect to see at least one new stand-alone essay or poll from each
> > > >> > and every regular mw poster within the next 24 hours or you're fucking
> > > >> > fired.
>
> > > >> > now get to it.
>
> > > >> > -$Zero...
>
> > > >> >follow the bouncing google sig links (Part I)
> > > >> >http://groups.google.com/group/misc.writing/msg/0fd2ff32e9686809
>
> > > >> I like wool.
>
> > > >that must be one of those mw inside jokes that i seemed to have
> > > >somehow missed out on over the past ten years.
>
> > > >mercy translation anyone?
>
> > > His girlfriend's favorite phrase is "baaaaaaa", do ewe geddit?
>
> > not yet.
>
> > IOW: i don't see how it relates to what preceeded it.
>
> > what does fucking a sheep have to do with my authoritative commands
> > for new and interesting material?
>
> > ...
>
>
> Well I was going to use silk, but most folks don't know that silk is
> actually warmer than wool when uesd for winter undies, so it would
> have been lost.
if the one sheep is missing does not the shepherd leave the flock to
go search for it?
or some such.
> > but i still don't see how that could relate significantly either.
>
> > unless maybe Koolchicki's accidently slipped back into the attempt-to-
> > mimic-Ray's-sense-of-humor-mode?
>
> Ouch! Oh! Ouch, ouch.
it was a humbling experiment, no?
> > it's probably dangerous to delve into such a reversion, kinda like
> > submerging yourself into the dark void of a sensory deprivation tank,
> > or force-crossing your eyes and having them stay that way, so maybe.
>
> Lumpy thinking,
yeah, i should have added:
> > it's probably dangerous to delve into such a reversion, kinda like
> > submerging yourself into the dark void of a sensory deprivation tank,
(without the hope of any possible benefitial hallucinations)
> > or force-crossing your eyes and having them stay that way, so maybe.
but i'm only half-perfect in my sloppiness.
> you need to be spurtled.
don't we all.
sammy
>
> - Show quoted text -
Don't worry, Zero. I don't think you're an idiot--I posted that essay
strictly because of its good compositional structure and not because I
have contempt for Zero. But you could try capitalizing your sentences,
no?
$Zero
> Don't worry, Zero. I don't think you're an idiot--
of course not. i'm a creative genius. duh.
and though that sometimes looks like idiocy to many many people,
creative geniuses like moi don't worry about those perceptions. we
just throw them right into the soup.
but sure, we do so often wish that we didn't having to deal with the
excessive idiotic meddling, but that's often the price for mixing
creativity with free speech.
> I posted that essay
> strictly because of its good compositional structure
well, that's something that many poor saps value much more than
relevant and effective communication.
> and not because I have contempt for Zero.
few people really do.
their contempt is mostly for themselves.
i sometimes try to help them along in recognizing it.
hence their outburts and shunnings and whatnot.
not to mention the smear factors, of course.
> But you could try capitalizing your sentences, no?
i've never had the extra time to learn how to type.
too busy writing.
john.ku...@sympatico.ca
Anyone seen Geno's Glock?
$Zero
<john.kulczy...@sympatico.ca> wrote:
> sammy wrote:
> > Don't worry, Zero. I don't think you're an idiot--I posted that essay
> > strictly because of its good compositional structure and not because I
> > have contempt for Zero. But you could try capitalizing your sentences,
> > no?
>
> Anyone seen Geno's Glock
uh oh.
looks like i've been whoooooooshed by a capitalist punster.
Pies de Arcilla
$Zero wrote:
> On Dec 6, 12:52 am, Pies de Arcilla <dearci...@gmail.com> wrote:
> > $Zero wrote:
> > > On Dec 5, 6:44�pm, Alan Hope <usenet.ident...@gmail.com> wrote:
> >
> > > > $Zero goes:
> >
> > > > >generate some new threads, you lazy fucks!
> >
> > > > >chop chop...
> >
> > > > >write some interesting stand-alone essays.
> >
> > > > >stop jerking off in your blogs.
> >
> > > > I remember when you could get paid big bucks to do that sort of thing.
> >
> > > > As much as $100 a year, in some cases.
> >
> > > $100 a week.
>
> starting salary.
>
> > > be patient.
> >
> > > Geno's thinking about investing.
> >
> > Anyone remember suck.com, back in the 90's? Was that a blog?
>
> wow.
>
> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Suck.com
>
> check out the where-are-they-now section.
Huh. I knew about Wonkette, but I didn't know that one of them went on
to become editor-in-chief of Reason.
Alan Hope
>I posted that essay
>strictly because of its good compositional structure
Holy fucking shit.
--
AH
http://grapes2dot0.blogspot.com
SereneBabe
> sammy goes:
>
> >I posted that essay
> >strictly because of its good compositional structure
>
> Holy fucking shit.
Wish I had more to add than a chuckle.
Towse
> Don't worry, Zero. I don't think you're an idiot--I posted that essay
> strictly because of its good compositional structure
Don't worry, sammy, but you could try capitalizing your name. I post
this essay strictly because of its good compositional structure.
==============
You're not the only one, Richard Roberts. God visited me as well.
Mark Morford
Friday, December 7, 2007
"Richard Roberts told students at Oral Roberts University that he did
not want to resign as president of the scandal-plagued evangelical
school, but he did so because God insisted."
Associated Press
There I was, calmly enjoying some Thanksgiving leftovers and offering
gratitude for this truly fine '04 Pinot when suddenly, boom, there was
God, right across the table, helping himself to some stuffing and the
choicest hunks of dark meat, which he totally knows is my favorite.
Clearly, he wanted my attention.
"Oh, hey, it's you," I said, feigning nonchalance, as if this sort of
thing happens to me every day (I always like to throw God off a bit,
given how he's so accustomed to those melodramatic,
fall-to-your-knees-in-terror reactions he always gets from the nutball
evangelicals whenever he swings through their nightmares in his classic
fire/brimstone persona. That always cracks him up.) "What's up?"
<http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2007/12/07/DDFJTOTN6.DTL>
Read on ...
--
Sal
Ye olde swarm of links: thousands of links for writers, researchers and
the terminally curious <http://writers.internet-resources.com>
sammy
> sammy wrote:
> > Don't worry, Zero. I don't think you're an idiot--I posted that essay
> > strictly because of its good compositional structure
>
> Don't worry, sammy, but you could try capitalizing your name.
Gotta give that one to you.
> I post
> this essay strictly because of its good compositional structure.
>
> ==============
>
> You're not the only one, Richard Roberts. God visited me as well.
> Mark Morford
> Friday, December 7, 2007
>
> "Richard Roberts told students at Oral Roberts University that he did
> not want to resign as president of the scandal-plagued evangelical
> school, but he did so because God insisted."
>
> Associated Press
>
> There I was, calmly enjoying some Thanksgiving leftovers and offering
> gratitude for this truly fine '04 Pinot when suddenly, boom, there was
> God, right across the table, helping himself to some stuffing and the
> choicest hunks of dark meat, which he totally knows is my favorite.
> Clearly, he wanted my attention.
>
> "Oh, hey, it's you," I said, feigning nonchalance, as if this sort of
> thing happens to me every day (I always like to throw God off a bit,
> given how he's so accustomed to those melodramatic,
> fall-to-your-knees-in-terror reactions he always gets from the nutball
> evangelicals whenever he swings through their nightmares in his classic
> fire/brimstone persona. That always cracks him up.) "What's up?"
>
> <http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2007/12/07/DDFJTOTN6...>
Josh Hill
<utilizat...@gmail.com> wrote:
>On Dec 6, 6:04 pm, "$Zero" <zeroi...@gmail.com> wrote:
Rubbish. My insights into the human condition have been rejected by
every junk mail catalog in the country.
>> sometimes a diode is just a diode.
>>
>> (other times, it's a bit of wire and silicone and whatnot).
>>
>> [...snip Josh's format-fucked self-justifying rationalizations...]
>>
>> feverishly composed by Josh with nothing other than good intentions,
>> no doubt.
>>
>> -$Zero...
>>
>> threading thru the history of clothing
>> http://groups.google.com/group/misc.writing/msg/b47c8110c1c59759- Hide quoted text -
>>
>> - Show quoted text -
>
>Don't worry, Zero. I don't think you're an idiot--I posted that essay
>strictly because of its good compositional structure and not because I
>have contempt for Zero. But you could try capitalizing your sentences,
>no?
--
Josh
"We have always known that heedless self-interest was bad morals.
We know now that it is bad economics." - Franklin D. Roosevelt
Josh Hill
<usenet....@gmail.com> wrote:
>sammy goes:
>
>>I posted that essay
>>strictly because of its good compositional structure
>
>Holy fucking shit.
You're just jealous of my Epistle to the Canapes.
$Zero
> On Thu, 6 Dec 2007 18:43:17 -0800 (PST), sammy
> <utilizational...@gmail.com> wrote:
> >On Dec 6, 6:04�pm, "$Zero" <zeroi...@gmail.com> wrote:
> >> On Dec 6, 6:11?pm, sammy <utilizational...@gmail.com> wrote:
> >> > On Dec 5, 1:56 pm, "$Zero" <zeroi...@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> >> > > generate some new threads, you lazy fucks!
[...]
> >> > > i expect to see at least one new stand-alone essay or poll from each
> >> > > and every regular mw poster within the next 24 hours or you're fucking
> >> > > fired.
>
> >> > > now get to it.
>
> >> > > -$Zero...
>
> >> > > �follow the bouncing google sig links (Part I)
> >> > > �http://groups.google.com/group/misc.writing/msg/0fd2ff32e9686809
>
> >> > I still think Josh's essay, The Follies of Being a Zero was the best,
> >> > funniest, and most well-written piece of writing on this group as long
> >> > as I have been here.
>
> >> you also probably think that the bible is the complete and inerrant
> >> word of God, so, um...
>
> >> > May I post it, Josh?
>
> >> Josh's "insights" on the human condition can be found in any junkmail
> >> catalog in the trash bin.
>
> Rubbish. My insights into the human condition have been rejected by
> every junk mail catalog in the country.
it's probably a copyright issue.
> >> sometimes a diode is just a diode.
>
> >> (other times, it's a bit of wire and silicone and whatnot).
-$Zero...
i'm living in a dreamworld
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